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On 4 April 1938, Liddy
Bacroff applied for "voluntary" castration. She was then examined by medical councillor Wilhelm Reuss from the Hamburg Health Department. The doctor classified Bacroff as "incurable transvestite" (who would continue to sell sexual services to men), which was tantamount to a
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In 1930 Bacroff was arrested for theft again and sentenced to two months in prison. Shortly after release from that sentence, Bacroff had to serve another month's imprisonment for trespassing. Almost a year later, in May 1931, Bacroff was sentenced again, this time to four months in prison for
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In 1936, Liddy
Bacroff was prosecuted for the first time under Section 4 of Paragraph 175 a of the German Criminal Code, which was newly introduced by the Nazis and made "commercial indecency" a punishable offense, and was sentenced by the Hamburg Regional Court to two years in the
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Gestapo and on remand, Liddy Bacroff was transferred to the Bremen-Oslebshausen penitentiary in October 1938 and, after serving her sentence, was sent to the detention center in
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clothes" was sitting at a table with another man in the "Komet" restaurant. Both people were arrested. Bacroff's table partner said he thought he had met a woman. Bacroff told police that she was given
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was set. The life story of Liddy
Bacroff can be heard as an audio recording on the website www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de. It quotes Bacroff's notes from her stay in prison.
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An experience as a transvestite. The adventure of one night in the transvestite bar Adlon!
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Will flirten, toben, schmeicheln! Lasst mich – ich bin Liddy
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Trans sex work in Berlin and Hamburg. Murdered by the Nazis
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auf stolpersteine-hamburg.de, mit 14 Minuten audio).
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In May 2016, Mannheim Theater Oliv staged the play named
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